A dense mist settled over Cougar Field during the last half
of this afternoon's game between the Houston Cougars and the Delaware Blue
Hens. It was a mist that perfectly exemplified the Coogs game up until that
moment, and by the middle of the eighth inning, the Cougars were trailing 5-0
in a game they looked destined to lose.
Then Taylor White led off with a double. Landon
Appling thought he got hit by a pitch, but didn't. And thought he struck
out, it appeared to light a fire under the Coogs. Before the inning was
over the Cougars were leading 7-5 and had scored a run in about every manner
possible but for the home run. The seventh run crossed the base from
second base on a suicide squeeze -- yes, that's right, a suicide squeeze.
"It was really frustrating the first part of the
game," close Mo Wiley said of the first two-thirds of the game.
"Things just weren’t going our way."
But when things did start going the UH way, they went the UH
way.
"We were sleep walking through the first seven
innings," head coach Todd Whitting said. "We weren’t making any
adjustments at the plate. We had hit two balls on the ground, on a
wet day on a wet field in seven innings. I think [Appling getting
hit and the ump not giving us the base] got us jump started a little bit. It
kind of woke up our dugout."
It's only one game. One game where the Coogs came back
to score seven runs in the bottom of the eighth to get the 7-5 win. But
it was Opening Day. And a win on Opening Day is always a beautiful thing,
even on a miserable rainy day like today.
The Cougars still have one more game to play tonight, and
wow, does it look a whole lot nicer outside.
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